Engaged Researcher Online - Public Engagement And Impact (STEM & Clinical School)

Beginners

What is impact? This training will disentangle academic and non-academic impact and explore the different types of impact and why impact is important. There will be opportunity to discuss your research in small groups, and consider the types of impact that you could generate. The session will consider how to incorporate impact into a research proposal and provide some useful tools. You will also understand where Public Engagement sits in the wider Impact agenda. You will have the opportunity to analyse impact case studies that feature Public Engagement as a way of achieving impact.

The training will be led by Caroline Reynolds, Impact Facilitator at the Research Office.

• PhD students
• Post-docs
• Researchers
• Public Engagement Professionals

Number of sessions: 1

• Provide an overview of impact – the different types and importance of impact to enable attendees to understand the relevance of considering the impact of their research.
• Provide an introduction of how to incorporate impact into a research proposal and understand the stakeholders. Equip researchers with a toolkit to approach inclusion of impact in a proposal.
• Provide an overview of the support available across the university to support impact.

Good internet connection: the course will be held in Microsoft Teams.

If you have troubles joining the sessions or have any queries, please contact Giulia Bertolotti (gb498@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

One ninety-minute session.

• Engaged Researcher Online - Introduction to Public Engagement
• Engaged Researcher Online - Evaluation Of Public Engagement